Posted on 06/26/2010 2:17:32 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
I hope what you mean is that there's nothing special about the highlights they can show on Sports Center. Until you realize that there's a lot more to the game than the goals it's difficult to understand. The Wednesday game was as compelling a sports event as I can ever remember watching (and I've seen quite a few of the BIG Ones in person including Mays Catch in 1954 - but only a few of us remember anything else that happened during the three hours that game was played).
ML/NJ
How about both. Eight players and a rule like hockey: the puck, or ball in soccer, has to precede a player into the zone. After the ball is in the zone (maybe fifty yards out from the goal), then anything is open. Then you’ll have a game. When a player does eventually get a shot on the goal in soccer, it can get interesting. But those moments are few and far between.
We’ve been at the same level, ranked in the mid-teens, on the edge of making it out of our group, for the past ten years.
I sympathize. There's practically nothing worse than a golfer who thinks his last round was so important, he has to recount every shot he made to his co-workers. I'd like to have strangled a few myself.
There were 205 national teams that competed for 31 spots in the 2010 World Cup [South Africa was given a spot as host country.] The fact that the US got one and advanced to the round of 16 is significant. Italy and France didn’t qualify for the round of 16. In 2006, they were in the finals.
Word.
And why Bradley insisted on starting Findley, I’ll never understand.
I suspect Altidore was too hurt to play, but we couldn’t let the competition know...until the game started.
That’s a fact.
It could have been Rossi, but he decided to try for the Azurri.
Dolt.
The commentators said that Bradley must have seen something in the last practice re: Clark. Whatever he saw didn’t show up for the game, that’s for sure.
Sure the Ghana guy finished well, but why was he allowed to be in the position he was.
And don't forget Bocanegra totally gave up after the Ghana player won the ball. He stopped ...didn't even try to cut off the angle.
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, so you are in a distinct minority
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poverty is also something we are in the minority of, doesn’t mean we need to want to be part of it. I watch it once every 4 years, when USA is in it. Otherwise I do something else.
Would have been nice to beat a tiny african country though.
Who is the "we" you are talking about? Soccer is the number one youth participation sport in the U.S. today, more popular even than American football, baseball, basketball, or hockey, up to about the age of 13.
De gustibus non est disputandum Opinions about matters of taste are not objectively right or wrong, and hence that disagreements about matters of taste cannot be objectively resolved. I enjoy soccer (along with football, basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, etc.) You have your tastes, I have mine. So what?
Would have been nice to beat a tiny african country though.
Ghana won the under 20 World Championship in 2009 beating Brazil. This "tiny African country" produces world class football players like the Dominican Republic produces baseball players.
The only reason they made it that far was Green’s howler. They still have all the same issues, questionable defense, and no strikers.
True. I enjoyed their relative success, but always felt they really weren’t that good, certainly not like the top teams. Howard seems to be overrated he shoulda stopped the first Ghana goal. Bradley shanked a ton of makeable kicks near goal. Man watching Germany now there is no comparison.
They played a lot of long balls in the Ghana game. I hate that. To me, if you play long balls a lot it means you're either out of ideas or not confident in your midfield play...or both.
I can understand doing that at the end of the game when you're behind and running out of time but...
My 15 yr old son is attending a soccer camp this week at the University of South Florida. When I dropped him off I gave him a serious look and said: "Son, it's up to you. Four years from now you have to win the US a World Cup."
:-)
Let’s win the U-23 title, first. ;)
Seemed to me every goal we gave up in the tourney was due to some defensive foul up rather than any awesome shot made by the opposition.
It’s so funny that South Africa is rooting for Ghana give how they treat immigrants from other Africa countries.
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